Preface:

This is the second edition of CSA Standard CAN/CSA-E60335-2-69, Safety of household and similar electrical appliances — Part 2: Particular requirements for wet and dry vacuum cleaners, including power brush, for industrial and commercial use, which is an adoption, with Canadian deviations, of the identically titled CEI/IEC (International Electrotechnical Commission) Standard 60335-2-69 (second edition, 1997-02), including Amendment 1:2000, currently available from IEC in English only. It supersedes the previous edition, published in 1994 as CANKSA-E335-2-69 (adopted CEVIEC 335-2-69: 1992).

This Standard was reviewed for Canadian adoption by the CSA Technical Committee on International Standards under the jurisdiction of the Strategic Resource Group, and has been formally approved by the Technical Committee. A list of the members of the Technical Committee is available upon request. This Standard has been approved as a National Standard of Canada by the Standards Council of Canada.

Scope:

This Standard applies to electrical motor-operated vacuum cleaners and includes appliances and stationary equipment specifically designed for wet suction, dry suction, or wet and dry suction for industrial and commercial use with or without attachments, for example for suction to withdraw dust or the like from work benches and production machines.

NOTE - Commercial uses are, for example, for use in hotels, schools, hospitals, factories, shops and offices for other than normal housekeeping purposes.

This Standard also applies to machines handling hazardous dust, e.g. asbestos, or liquids for which additional national requirements apply.

It is also applicable to appliances making use of other forms of energy for the motor; but it is necessary that their influence is taken into consideration.